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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Obama ad Nauseum

By Alan
Caruba

I made a
promise to myself that I would not write about President Obama’s State of the
Union speech because that would require me to watch him deliver it. Like many
others I can barely watch him under any circumstance because, to my mind, that
means having to watch a psychopathic liar. The problem with that is that he is
the President for two more years.

In a
rational world, politicians voting on whether the climate changes or not is an
absurdity. Of course the climate changes. It always has and always will. But
when Democrats use the term “climate change” they really mean “global warming.”
And global warming has been the greatest hoax of the modern era, getting its
start in the late 1980s and becoming a huge academic industry generated by the
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Global
warming put billions in the pockets of “scientists”, universities, and any
think tank that would lie about it, telling the nation and the world that
carbon dioxide, a gas that is barely 0.04% of the Earth’s atmosphere was
warming it when, in fact, the Earth stopped warming some 19 years ago at the
same time the Sun entered a natural cycle of lower solar radiation.

Few of
these “scientists” bothered to tell the public that, without carbon dioxide, we
and all other life on Earth would die as it is critical to the growth of all
vegetation. The fact that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has
actually been increasing at the same time the Earth has been cooling is proof
enough that all the warming claims were and are pure hogwash.

It turns out that all the computer
models that they and others have generated to predict a catastrophic global
warming have been wrong, wrong, and wrong.

Obama
didn’t have a word to say about al Qaeda and the other Islamic fascists eager
to destroy modernity and drag the world back to the Dark Age, but he did lie
about 2014 as “the planet’s warmest year on record.”

That lie
was initially put out by NASA and National Oceanic and the Atmospheric
Administration, (NOAA) two government agencies that shortly thereafter admitted
that they might be wrong, seeing that their assertion of the 0.02 degree
Celsius increase wasn’t even outside their own margin of error. They could have
taken a look at their own satellite data and saved themselves from looking like
idiots.

Obama
said, “I’ve heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they’re not
scientists; that we don’t have enough information to act. Well, I’m not a
scientist, either. But you know what—I know a lot of really good scientists at
NASA and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world
are all tell us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not
act forcefully, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, long, hotter heat waves,
dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger great
migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.”

This is
lying on a galactic scale. The United States doesn’t need to do a single thing
to reduce “greenhouse gas emissions”, nor should it bother to do so. Obama’s
claims of catastrophic change bears no relationship to the fact that in recent
years the planet has had a record low in the numbers of tornadoes and
hurricanes, and a record gain in Arctic and Antarctic ice. There has been no change
of any significance in the sea levels. Those who study such things note that
“Until about 7,000 years ago the rate of rise was about 100 mm/decade. Since
then rate of rise has averaged 10 mm/decade.” That’s “mm” as in millimeters.

In late
December, the world’s second largest reinsurer, Swiss Re, reported on the
losses from natural events in 2014 and, despite predictions that climate change
would cause more frequent natural catastrophes due to man-made worsening of the
climate, it saw “markedly less damage claims than in previous years” and far
less loss of lives.” In terms of the dollars it cost the insurance industry,
Swiss Re estimated that costs insurers covered were USD $113 billion in 2014,
down from USD $135 billion in 2013. Losses were down 24% from 2013.

That, of
course, doesn’t matter to Obama. It should, however, matter to the rest of us
because the Environmental Protection Agency has been using those computer
models and abjectly phony “science” to wage Obama’s war on the nation’s
providers of the energy on which we all depend. From coal-fired plants to
drilling for oil and natural gas, anything that might provide energy is under
attack by the EPA.

As Katie
Tubb, a research assistant for the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy
Studies at The Heritage Foundation, responded to Obama’s claim saying that “The
EPA’s proposed regulations would have almost zero impact on global
temperatures, but will certainly impact Americans now and for future
generations.”

So, when
you read about a bunch of U.S. Senators, only one of whom, Oklahoma’s Sen.
James Inhofe (R) has a grasp of the real science, spent time voting back and
forth over amendments and their language regarding the climate, you were in
fact really reading about the debate leading up to the passage of the bill that
would remove Obama’s authority to prevent the construction of the Keystone XL
pipeline.

Between a
President who lies about global warming and climate change, and a Congress
composed mostly of lawyers who are clueless about the actual science, the best
we can hope for is a Republican Party determined to rein in the EPA and other
government agencies; the reason they were voted into office.

3 comments:

Alan, we all know he is a serial liar, and I too can't stand to watch or listen to the man.If you have a chance, read the current national Geographic article about how Florida will be severely impacted by 5-6' higher seas by 2100. Enough to make you gag!

Climate sensitivity? CO2 has no significant effect on climate. Here’s an easy way to tell.

In climate science, a forcing is defined as something which, if applied for a finite period of time will result in a change in the energy content of the planet. Energy change divided by the effective thermal capacitance equals (with consistent units) the change in average global temperature (AGT). Although any consistent set of units could be used, forcing (per unit area) could be in Joules/sec and energy change in Joules.

If forcing is constant, the energy change is simply the forcing times the duration of the forcing. If the forcing varies with time then the energy change is the time-integral of the forcing. If some average forcing results in an average temperature, the temperature will fluctuate in response to the time-integral of the forcing ‘anomaly’ (the difference between the forcing of each year and the average forcing for many years).

Pick any two points separated in time that have the same average global temperature (AGT) anomaly. The cumulative forcing is the time-integral of the forcing (or the time integral of the forcing anomaly) times a scale factor. Because the AGT at the beginning and end of the time period are the same and the time-integral of CO2 level is not zero, the scale factor must be zero. As a consequence, the effect of the forcing is zero.

The two points could be during the Holocene thousands of years apart which would avoid significant influence from ocean oscillations. If the forcing in question is atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), the effect of CO2 below about 285 ppmv is demonstrated to be zero. If the time period spans several interglacials, this is increased to about 300 ppmv. If the time period spans the Phanerozoic this is increased to several times the present 400 ppmv.

Climate sensitivity, (the increase in AGT due to doubling of CO2) is therefore not significantly different from zero.

The two natural factors that do explain average global temperature since before 1900 (including the flat since before 2001) with 95% correlation are disclosed at http://agwunveiled.blogspot.com.

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I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.